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@Kalvin.

Not only an interim mayor nobody has voted for, but an interim mayor (and indeed a full mayor) that nobody wants.

Residents of Manchester City Council actually voted *against* this in a referendum.

And obviously it goes without saying that none of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority's pen-pushers or time-wasters from the Mayor all the way down to the Executive Delivery Officer for Premises Hygienisation and Deprivation Reduction (aka the cleaner) will actually know or realise that "Greater Manchester" and Manchester are two different places.

In so-called "Greater Manchester" there are over 1 million people living in a whole bunch of urban, semi-rural and rural communities, from Orrell to Saddleworth and 10 towns between, which even the GMCA's own research shows the vast majority of whom neither work in nor visit Manchester itself.

But they'll happily take our council tax payments to play with toy trams, and painting different coloured lines on the road, etc. And of course employ more staff. All in Central Manchester, it goes without saying.

That's democracy for you, I suppose.